EVP_PKEY-X25519, EVP_PKEY-X448, EVP_PKEY-ED25519, EVP_PKEY-ED448,
EVP_KEYMGMT-X25519, EVP_KEYMGMT-X448, EVP_KEYMGMT-ED25519, EVP_KEYMGMT-ED448 -
EVP_PKEY X25519, X448, ED25519 and ED448 keytype and algorithm support
The
X25519,
X448,
ED25519 and
ED448 keytypes are
implemented in OpenSSL's default and FIPS providers. These implementations
support the associated key, containing the public key
pub and the
private key
priv.
No additional parameters can be set during key generation.
In addition to the common parameters that all keytypes should support (see
"Common parameters" in
provider-keymgmt(7)), the
implementation of these keytypes support the following.
- "group" (OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_GROUP_NAME)
<UTF8 string>
- This is only supported by X25519 and X448. The group name
must be "x25519" or "x448" respectively for those
algorithms. This is only present for consistency with other key exchange
algorithms and is typically not needed.
- "pub" (OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_PUB_KEY) <octet
string>
- The public key value.
- "priv" (OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_PRIV_KEY)
<octet string>
- The private key value.
- "encoded-pub-key"
(OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_ENCODED_PUBLIC_KEY) <octet string>
- Used for getting and setting the encoding of a public key
for the X25519 and X448 key types. Public keys are expected
be encoded in a format as defined by RFC7748.
- "mandatory-digest"
(OSSL_PKEY_PARAM_MANDATORY_DIGEST) <UTF8 string>
- The empty string, signifying that no digest may be
specified.
- RFC 8032
- RFC 8410
An
EVP_PKEY context can be obtained by calling:
EVP_PKEY_CTX *pctx =
EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_name(NULL, "X25519", NULL);
EVP_PKEY_CTX *pctx =
EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_name(NULL, "X448", NULL);
EVP_PKEY_CTX *pctx =
EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_name(NULL, "ED25519", NULL);
EVP_PKEY_CTX *pctx =
EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_name(NULL, "ED448", NULL);
An
X25519 key can be generated like this:
pkey = EVP_PKEY_Q_keygen(NULL, NULL, "X25519");
An
X448,
ED25519, or
ED448 key can be generated likewise.
EVP_KEYMGMT(3),
EVP_PKEY(3),
provider-keymgmt(7),
EVP_KEYEXCH-X25519(7),
EVP_KEYEXCH-X448(7),
EVP_SIGNATURE-ED25519(7),
EVP_SIGNATURE-ED448(7)
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